{"id":71144,"date":"2026-09-03T21:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/71144"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:54:30","slug":"world-cup-winner-llorente-retires-from-spain-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/71144","title":{"rendered":"World Cup winner Llorente retires from Spain duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>World Cup winner Marcos Llorente announced his retirement from international football on Thursday, ending \u200ba Spain career that yielded 27 \u200ccaps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Atletico Madrid defender, 31, made his senior team debut for Spain in 2020 and was part \u200bof the squad that beat Argentina 1-0 \u200bto win the World Cup in July, \u2060although he remained on the bench in \u200bthe final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know many of \u200byou won\u2019t understand this, and I probably wouldn\u2019t have \u200cunderstood \u2060it either if I were looking at it from the outside. But it\u2019s a personal decision\u2014one I\u2019ve thought through very carefully and, above \u200ball, one \u200bthat comes \u2060from the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Real Madrid player thanked his teammates and \u200breflected on Spain\u2019s triumphant World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll \u200bcherish \u2060everything I\u2019ve experienced, but above all, these last 52 days,\u201d Llorente said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a wonderful group \u2060that \u200bfought until the very end \u200bto put Spain at the top. And that\u2019s exactly what \u200bthey did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/world-cup-winner-llorente-retires-from-spain-duty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup winner Marcos Llorente announced his retirement from international football on Thursday, ending \u200ba Spain career that yielded 27 \u200ccaps. The Atletico Madrid defender, 31, made his senior team debut for Spain in 2020 and was part \u200bof the squad that beat Argentina 1-0 \u200bto win the World Cup in July, \u2060although he remained on the bench in \u200bthe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/FotoJet-20-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":4386,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":4386,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71146,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71144\/revisions\/71146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}